{"id":1279,"date":"2023-09-27T14:07:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2023-09-27T14:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:09:44","slug":"week-8-jss-2-third-term-home-economics-lesson-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-8-jss-2-third-term-home-economics-lesson-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8 &#8211; Jss 2 Third Term Home Economics Lesson Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WEEK: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0EIGHT<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<strong>TOPIC:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0FOOD PURCHASING, PROCESSING, PRESERVATION AND SAFETY<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>SUB-TOPIC:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0HOW TO KEEP FOOD SAFE<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>CONTENT<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>FOOD PRESERVATION AND STORAGE<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Food preservation is the caring for or treating food in such a way that it will be kept in good condition for a long period of time. A preserved food can be stored for a longer period than a raw food.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>METHODS OF PRESERVING FOOD<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong><em>Solar or sun drying:<\/em><\/strong> This is drying by mere spreading the food stuff in the sun on a mat or concrete floors e. g. cassava, maize, melon etc.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><em>Smoking:<\/em><\/strong> Such food as fish, meat and some root crops are preserved by smoking. In some cases, the smoked food items are later subjected to solar or sun drying.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><em>Freezing:<\/em><\/strong> The water content of the food stuff is frozen and then sublimed under vacuum. Heat is supplied by conduction or radiation. Example of food dried by these methods is, fish, meat and vegetables.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><em>Canning:<\/em><\/strong> this is preservation of food by sealing it in air tight containers and applying heat. It is commonly used for fruits and vegetables.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>FOOD STORAGE<br \/>\n<\/strong>Food storage involves keeping preserved or purchased food in safe condition and suitable facility for use.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>FOOD STORAGE FACILITIES<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Plastic food container: they are suitable for storing liquid such as palm oil, flour e.g. cassava, yam, wheat, dried grains and pulses e.g. maize, beans, rice, ground food ingredients e.g. egunsi, ogbono, others such as sugar, salt e.t.c.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Food store: it is also a place for storing food. It is often part of the kitchen\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Food storage cupboards, cabinets and shelves\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Refrigerators and freezers: food spoilage can be prevented by storing foodstuffs under cold conditions. This is because the bacteria or micro-organisms which cause food spoilage are generally inactive under very cold conditions.\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IMPORTANCE OF PROPER STORAGE OF FOOD<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>It prevents food from spoilage\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>It prevents loss of nutrients\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>It helps the homemaker to save money\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>It saves time and energy of going to the market always.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><em>Evaluation:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong><em>State four methods of preserving food<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><em>Outline four storage facilities<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><em>state the importances of proper storage of food.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Assignment:  make a research on how post harvest storage of beans and maize is carried out<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0EIGHT TOPIC:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0FOOD PURCHASING, PROCESSING, PRESERVATION AND SAFETY SUB-TOPIC:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0HOW TO KEEP FOOD SAFE CONTENT FOOD&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-third-term-jss2-home-economics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}